Pakistan

Jaideep Ahlawat talks about the failure of his film An Action Hero that also starred Ayushmann Khurrana in a vital role. While talking in an interview, he revealed that he doesn’t have any expectations from his projects. He added: “I mean surely, after a film’s failure there is some introspection about what might have gone wrong about the film? It’s getting almost …

MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will meet the party’s chairman, Imran Khan, on Saturday in what will be the parliamentary party’s first formal meeting with the former prime minister after last year’s elections. PTI sources told Dawn that the meeting would be held at Mr Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore at 3pm, adding …

SWAT: Regional police officer, Malakand, Sajjad Khan said on Friday that the police had arrested three persons, including a woman, for their involvement in the murder of Charbagh peace committee’s former member Mohammad Qayyum. The RPO, DPO Shafiullah Gandapur and other police officers addressed a press conference in Swat Press Club. Mr Sajjad said the incident was not linked to …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has linked the conduct of fresh deli­­mi­tation with official notification of the final results of the yet-to-com­mence exercise of the first-ever digital census results by March 31, 2023. Informed sources told Dawn that the decision, taken after the calculation of minimum time required with squeezed timelines through an in-house discussion, has been conveyed to the …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Friday declared that PDM would contest elections of provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if these are dissolved by PTI Chairman Imran Khan. The decision came at a meeting presided over Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who directed the cabinet ministers and aides to adopt an “aggressive” strategy against the main opposition PTI and expose …

At least three people aboard a passenger van in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were allegedly killed on Saturday morning when a man shot at other travellers, police said. District Police Officer (DPO) Asif Bahadur told Dawn.com that some of the passengers on the van got into a heated argument and the situation escalated with one of them taking out his gun and opening …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to an accused facing blasphemy charges for joining a “WhatsApp” group, which alleged­ly posted sacrilegious content, and obser­ved that the state, and not individuals, should have the authority to deal with the matters concerning religion. “The state should not surrender itself to individuals on religious matters rather the state machinery should be …

LAHORE / RAWALPINDI: A day before PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s promised announcement regarding the dissolution of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, the war of nerves reached fever pitch as their coalition partner, the PML-Q, seemed to be looking for a larger slice of the general election pie. After their attempts to convince party chief Imran Khan to delay the dissolution …

The Sindh High Court has dismissed a petition seeking to make the teaching of the Holy Quran mandatory in all schools and colleges, ruling that it was not the function of the court to dictate the content of the curriculum. The petition called for the amendment of the curriculum of primary, secondary and higher secondary/college education so as to make …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday rejected the statement issued by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it a “reflection of India’s growing frustration”. On Thursday, FM Bilawal had described Modi as the “butcher of Gujarat” while responding to his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the United Nations after …